SELECTED INVITED TALKS
Invited Keynote Talk at the conference ‘When Media Environments Become Real’, Berne, Switzerland, February 2008 – ‘Real Actions in Virtual Environments’ - http://www.mediaconference.ch/speakers.html
Invited Talk: SACS ´07 - Significant Advances in Computer Science, Graz Austria
http://informatik.tugraz.at/cs/en/sacs/index.html, November 2007 ‘Virtual Events Can Evoke Realistic Responses’.
Invited Keynote Talk at the Intuition 2007 conference, Athens, Greece, October 2007 http://www.intuition2007.org/
Invited Lecture: PEACH Summer School, FP6 Coordination Action – ‘The Concept and Assessment of Presence in Virtual Environments’, July 2007 - http://school.peachbit.org/
Invited Lecture: Universidad de Málaga, Ronda , EL CEREBRO:EVOLUCIÓN Y COGNICIÓN at Universidad de Málaga, cursos de verano “La realidad virtual en el estudio del cerebro y la consciencia” M. V. Sanchez Vives & M. Slater http://www.fgum.es/cursosv/vercurso.php?id=113, July 2007.
Invited Keynote Talk: Edinburgh International Science Festival, 7th April, 2007, ‘Social Interaction within Virtual Environments’, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
Invited Keynote Talk: Second International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, 8 - 11 March, 2007, Barcelona, Spain, ‘The Influence of Rendering Styles on Participant Responses in Immersive Virtual Environments’.
Invited Whitehead Lecture on Cognition, Computation and Creativity, Goldsmiths College, University of London, 31st January, 2007 ‘Is action based on perception rather than knowledge? The evidence from presence in virtual environments’.
Invited Talk: The Polytrauma Conference 2006, Dartmouth College, United States, 4th December 2006, ‘Speculations on the Use of Virtual Reality in the Treatment of Polytrauma’.
Invited Talk: University of Southern California, Institute of Creative Technologies, Online, Offline & The Concept of Presence, When Games and VR Collide, 25-27th October, 2006, ‘Interactive With Virtual Characters in Immersive Virtual Environments’.
Invited Symposium on Virtual Reality and Consciousness (Organiser) at the Society of Applied Neuroscience, Conference, Swansea, UK, 18th September, 2006, ‘Presence in Virtual Reality’.
Invited Keynote Talk: Ibero American Symposium in Computer Graphics SIACG 2006, Santiago de Compostello, Spain, 5th July, 2006, ‘Interacting with Virtual Characters in Immersive Virtual Environments’
Invited Plenary Talk: Toward a Science of Consciousness 2006, Tuscon, Arizona, USA, 8th April, 2006, M. V. Sanchez-Vives and Mel Slater ‘The use of virtual reality in the study of consciousness’.
Invited Seminar: Neurological Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, ‘From Presence to Consciousness through Virtual Reality’
Invited keynote talk at Zweiter Workshop Virtuelle und Erweiterte Realität der GI-Fachgruppe VR/AR, RWTH Aachen, Virtual Reality Center, 26. - 27. September 2005: Interactions with Virtual People and Presence in Virtual Environments.
M.V. Sanchez Vives and M. Slater (2005) Attention, Presence and Consciousness (invited talk) presented at Fundacion duques de Soria, Seminario de Neurociencias: Brain Mechanisms of Attention: Biological and Computacional Approaches, 18-22nd July, 2005, Soria, Spain.
Actividades Culturales , Seu Universitària De Cocentaina (Cocentaina 2004-2005) Conferencia Inaugural Cursos D'estiu 2005, Interacciones sociales en realidad virtual, a cargo del Profesor Mel Slater (University College London, UK) http://www.ua.es/es/estudios/seus/actividades/cocentaina/julio05.html
Primer Congreso Ibérico de Percepción, Barcelona, July 6-8 2005
Is perception based on minimal cues? Mel Slatera and Maria V. Sanchez-Vives. University College, London, Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Universidad Miguel Hernández-CSIC, Spain
http://www.ub.es/pbasic/cip2005/frame.html
‘Presence in Virtual Environments and Interactions with Virtual People’ Central European Multimedia and Virtual Reality Conference 2005 8-10 June 2005, Prague, Czech Republic
‘From Presence to Consciousness in Virtual Environments’ 3rd VR Symposium: Virtual Reality, Associated Technologies, and Rehabilitation, March 7-9, 2005, Technion, Haifa, Israel.
‘Presence in Virtual Environments’ University of Sheffield, February 2nd, 2005
‘Interactions with Virtual People’ invited keynote talk presented at 3rd International Congress ARQUITECTURA 3000, Barcelona, June 30th to July 1st , 2004,
http://www.ckk.chalmers.se/vr/arquitectura3000/#Invited
‘Presence in Virtual Environments’ Institut Universitari De L'audiovisual (Iua) Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Àrea De França. Campus De La Ciutadella, Barcelona, July 2nd, 2004.
‘Presence in Practice’ presented at the workshop ‘From Presence Towards Consciousness’ organised by Mel Slater and Maria V. Sanchez-Vives at the 8th Annual Conference for the Scientific Study of Consciousness. http://143.129.203.3/assc8/wor.html , Antwerp, Belgium, June 25th, 2004.
‘Presence Technologies and their future prospects & challenges’ FET S&T Seminars, European Commission, Brussels, June 1st 2004.
‘Presence in Virtual Environments’ Department of Computer Science, Brown University, Providence Rhode Island, USA, May 2004.
‘Presence in Virtual Environments’ May 28th 2004, Computer Science Department, Trinity College Dublin.
‘The future direction of presence research’, meeting organised by 6th Framework FET Presence Research, Darmstadt, Germany, February 2004.
‘The Illusion of Sentience in Virtual Environments’, presented at Intelligent Motion and Interaction within Virtual Environments, conference co-chairs S. Ellis & M. Slater, organised by NASA/NATO, London, September 2003 www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/Motion .
‘Real People Interacting with Virtually Real People: Some Experiments’ 12th International Conference on Aritificial Reality and Tele-Existence, ICAT 2002, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, December 2002. http://vrsj.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ic-at/ICAT2002/ .
‘Reponses of Humans to Avatars’ Department of Computer Science, University of Pennsylvania, USA, November 2002.
‘Experiments on Avatar/Human Communication’ Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, November 2002.
‘Do Avatars Dream of Digital Sheep? Virtual People and the Sense of Presence’ Robotics Institute, University of Valencia, Spain, June 2002.
‘Do Avatars Dream of Digital Sheep? Virtual People and the Sense of Presence’, March 26th, 2002, Keynote Talk IEEE Virtual Reality Conference 2002, March 24 - 28, 2002, Orlando, Florida. Abstract p3 in Proceedings in
http://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/vr/2002/1492/00/1492toc.htm (Keynote Address)
‘Do Avatars Dream of Digital Sheep’ March 15, 2001, University of California, Santa Barbara
‘Do Avatars Dream of Digital Sheep? Virtual People and the Sense of Presence’ presented at MIT Sensory Communications Lab, and also at Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, November, 2001.
‘The Virtual Lightfield’ Tutorial: ACM Virtual Reality Software & Technology conference, Seoul, Korea, 2000.
‘Virtual Environments in Social Phobia Treatment: A Case Study for Fear of Public Speaking’ David Clark and Mel Slater, Visualization and Virtual Environments Community Club (VVECC) Virtual Environments in Medicine and Psychiatry, December 2000. http://www-ais.itd.clrc.ac.uk/VVECC/proceed/medical/index.html
‘Co-Presence Amplifies Emotional Response: a case study on the fear of public speaking’ Visualization and Virtual Environments Community Club (VVECC) Collaborative working in visualization and virtual environments, May 1999
‘Towards a Science of Virtual Reality’, Swiss Federal Institute of Science and Technology (EPFL), 6 Lectures, September, 1998.
‘Presence and Interaction in Virtual Environments’ Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley, March 1998.
‘An Immersive Virtual Environment for Visualisation of a Complex Task’ presented at EPSRC Visualisation Community Club, 15th May 1996.
‘Immersion, Presence and Performance in Virtual Environments’ NASA Ames Research Centre, California, USA, August 1996.
‘Navigation in Virtual Environments: The Virtual Treadmill’ .Apple Computers, Cupertino, California, USA, September 1994.
‘Body Centred Interaction in Virtual Environments’ University of Washington, Seattle, USA, September 1994.
‘Presence in Virtual Reality: Placing People in the Image’ at Workshop on Common Methodologies for Image Synthesis and Analysis, December 5-7th, 1994, Institute per le Applicazioni del Calcolo (IAC), Rome.
‘The Concept of Presence in Immersive Virtual Environments’ at University of Geneva, Faculte de Psychologie et des Sciences de L'Education, 3eme cycle, April 1994.
